USS Gregory (DD-82)

USS Gregory (DD-82), circa in 1919
History
United States
Name:	USS Gregory
Builder:	Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down:	25 August 1917
Launched:	27 January 1918
Commissioned:	1 June 1918
Recommissioned:	4 November 1940
Decommissioned:	7 July 1922
Reclassified:	2 August 1940, APD-3
Struck:	2 October 1942
Fate:	Sunk in battle, 5 September 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,191 tons
Length:	314 ft 4 in (95.81 m)
Beam:	30 ft 11 in (9.42 m)
Draft:	9 ft 2 in (2.79 m)
Speed:	35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph)
Complement:	141 officers and enlisted
Armament:	4 × 4"/50 (102 mm) guns, 1 3"/25 (76 mm), 4 × 3 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes

USS Gregory (DD-82/APD-3) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I and, as APD-3 World War II. She was named for Admiral Francis Gregory USN (1780–1866).

Gregory was laid down by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company at Quincy, Massachusetts on 25 August 1917, launched on 27 January 1918 by Mrs. George S. Trevor, great-granddaughter of Admiral Gregory, and commissioned on 1 June 1918, Commander Arthur P. Fairfield in command.

She was converted into a high-speed transport during World War II and was sunk by Japanese warships.

Joining a convoy at New York, Gregory sailed for Brest, France, 25 June 1918. She spent the final summer of the war escorting convoys from the French port to various Allied ports in Britain and France. As the war neared its close, Gregory was assigned to the patrol squadron at Gibraltar 2 November 1918. In addition to patrolling in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Gregory carried passengers and supplies to the Adriatic and aided in the execution of the terms of the Austrian armistice. After six months of this duty, the flush-deck destroyer joined naval forces taking part in relief missions to the western Mediterranean 28 April 1919. In company with the battleship Arizona, Gregory carried supplies and passengers to Smyrna, Constantinople, and Batum. She then sailed for Gibraltar with the American consul from Tiflis, Russia and some British army officers. She offloaded her passengers on the rocky fortress; Gregory sailed for New York reaching the United States 13 June 1919.